Nicktoons Animation Festival
I don’t normally endorse corporate animation contests, but the one my friend Rita Street has been co-producing (with Frederator, the …
Jerry Beck
Enchanted Trailer
I’m still not sure about this flick… but the trailer looks pretty good to me.
A Fair(y) Use Tale
Film history professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University explains copyright law, via clips from Disney and Pixar films, in this clever …
Artists get down to business at Otis
Attention L.A. area artists. This one’s for you: on Saturday, June 9th, from 10 am to 1 pm, at Otis College of Art and Design on their …
You Asked For It
Here’s an kinescope excerpt from the classic 1950s TV show, You Asked For It, from sometime during its first year of broadcast (1950-51 …
Persepolis trailer
As enthused as I am over the big budget, widescreen Hollywood animated blockbusters en route to the cineplex this summer, I’ve been …
Update on Bee Movie
New trailer (with actual footage from the film) posted here. Courtesy of Hollywood Elsewhere: direct from the Cannes Film Festival …
Forgotten Flintstones on MySpace
Here is one of the best MySpace pages I have seen devoted to a classic cartoon series. Forgotten Flintstones contains a lot of fun …
More Classic Animation on DVD
Not to be overlooked in this year of great classic cartoon DVD releases (the The Little King and Cultoons collection is subtitled …
Ward Kimball on The Tomorrow Show
As an addendum to our posts on Ward Kimball (can we ever post enough about Kimball?), our pal Don Brockway (Psst, check out his webpage …
Tezuka exhibit in San Fran
In the photo above, the guy on the left is yours truly, Jerry Beck, blathering on about the fine points of American animation to the guy …
R.I.P. Ward Kimball’s Railroad
According to this piece in today’s LA Times, Ward Kimball’s family is dismantling his backyard Grizzly Flats Railroad – one of the major …
Why? Because we HATE you!
It isn’t everyday that the LA Times prints an editorial that mentions Song of the South (1946) and Alice’s Egg Plant (1925). But that’s …
Lost Filmstrips
Over at CreativePro.com, writer Gene Gable has posted a great series of articles on all aspects of vintage design, discussing everything …
Donald Duck Wants You To Use Condoms!
Talk about Duck and Cover! A rare wartime propaganda poster from World War II using Donald Duck to urge soldiers to use condoms (prophylactics), is being auctioned off this month by Hake’s.
Rare SNAFU/Wartime Animation Art Found
A Hollywood production artist, part-time performer and animator, Paul Manchester, has inherited a cache of rare World War II animation …
Best. Song. Ever.
It’s too bad You Feets To Big had to be removed from You Tube. In it’s place we present, direct from the aforementioned Beijing …
China’s unlicensed knock-off of Disneyland
It’s the Crappiest Place on Earth! It’s one thing to bootleg a DVD of Pirates of the Caribbean, but it’s quite another to rip off an …
Astro Boy wants a Hybrid
Osamu Tezuka’s biggest stars endorse the Toyota Prius on its 10th anniversary. (via Japan Probe)
The Flintstones jump the shark
(Thanks to Ira Gallen for posting this)
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